Published in "Untangling Coma Berenices: A New Vision of an Old Cluster", Proceedings of the meeting held in Marseilles (France), June 17-20, 1997, Eds.: Mazure, A., Casoli F., Durret F. , Gerbal D., Word Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd. The LEVEL5 version is a reformated text available from http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9711251

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OUR BEST FRIEND, THE COMA CLUSTER
(A HISTORICAL REVIEW)

Andrea BIVIANO

Istituto Te.S.R.E.,
Area della Ricerca del CNR, via Gobetti 101, I-40129 BOLOGNA
E-mail: abiviano@iso.vilspa.esa.es


Abstract. In this paper I describe how our knowledge and understanding of the properties and structure of the Coma cluster of galaxies has evolved through the years, since early this century, when the first maps of the density of nebulæ in the Coma region were produced, and until the present time. It is shown that most of the recent discoveries that have led to a change in our view of this cluster, were in fact anticipated very early on.


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